February 15, 2018 - We talked a couple of months ago about the best places to store bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and their advantages and disadvantages. It turns out there’s another nuance: Cryptocurrencies and e-discovery. It makes sense. The whole point of cryptocurrency – at least, one of them – is to have anonymous currency that can’t be traced...... READ MORE

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There’s been a rash of issues lately with Windows 10 updates and Insider Preview upgrades. Some of these have left PCs with boot problems. I read about a particularly interesting case in point on TenForums this morning. Its title “Caught in safe mode” tell us the author wants to break out of a vicio…READ MORE

Imagine it: A car that knows you well enough to adjust your seat, cue up your favorite music, map your destination and unlock the door for you — even if you’ve never driven it before. Or the right vehicle for every occasion, from city errands to a weekend in the mountains, arriving at your door in …READ MORE

Containers as a service (CaaS) is a cloud service that allows software developers to upload, organize, run, scale, manage and stop containers by using a provider’s API calls or a web portal interface. Continued…

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“Comparing virtualization to containers is a bit like comparing a…READ MORE

New architectures composed out of language agnostic software containers have made polyglot programming a new reality. But out of this newfound freedom chaos can ensue if clear software development governance policies do not exist that describe when, where and why certain programming languages can be…READ MORE

I read an article the other day called Who Killed the Junior Developer. The author talks a little about her experience with job hunting as a new graduate and also what the job advertising landscape looks like. The cliche is that companies create advertisements for a position that they can’t possible…READ MORE

The recent press release from Palo Alto networks comes with a great surprise as they released PAN-OS 8.1 which comes with some great new features and enhancements, also the new hardware they introduced have plenty to offer.

With growing threats targeted in form, SSL is always challenging to inter…READ MORE

Last week I spoke about some of the critical factors that will be important for IT leaders to consider if they are bring containers and Kubernetes into their environments. These decision-criteria are elements that will have longer-term impacts on how well their application developers and IT oper…READ MORE

There is little argument that cloud is having a major impact on how organisations design, provision and operate their IT platforms. However, there still seem to be major arguments as to what an overall cloud platform actually should be.

Digital disruption has been able to bring a lot of opportunities for new business spectrum. Internet was probably the biggest disruption in bringing the whole world connecting with each other so easily with each other. In fact, different time zones and geographic distances are no longer an issue.Tra…READ MORE

I ran into an interesting issue last week. I had VMs in the US West region of Azure which was unable to talk to the MySQL database service (PaaS) also in US West. The problem is turned out was due to a new feature that needed some adjusting to make work (there’s already a bug open to get this fixed)…READ MORE

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What do you think about these new reports regarding the Equifax breach? Are you worried about your data? Check out the new details surrounding the breach in this week’s roundup.

You wouldn’t exactly classify the leaders of the UK tech sector as a bunch of liberal lefties. For all the stereotypes of bearded Shoreditch sandal-wearers that surround much of the nascent startup scene, if you polled the average UK tech conference for delegates’ political views, you would find…READ MORE

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in California, has insisted its macabre problem child Logan Paul hasn’t done enough to be kicked off the platform.
The company’s image has been run ragged by the maniacal vlogger since January’s media storm surrounding h…READ MORE